D&D 5E Doctors & Daleks - Cubicle 7 Brings Doctor Who to D&D 5E

Cubicle 7 -- makers of the official Doctor Who roleplaying game -- has announced that the Doctor will officially be coming to 5E soon under the name Doctors and Daleks. There are no dates or details yet, over than that the Doctors and Daleks Player's Guide will launch 'soon'.

A NEW COMPANION FOR YOUR ADVENTURES THROUGH ALL OF SPACE AND TIME!

The wild adventures of everyone’s favourite Time Lord comes to the world’s most popular roleplaying game in Doctors and Daleks. Take your gaming group into the TARDIS and travel anywhere, anywhen. Want to meet Leornado da Vinci? Or see what life is like in the year 3,000? What about another planet entirely? All of space and time is your Venusian macro-oyster, but keep your wits about you — there’s a lot of danger in the vastness of eternity.

We are delighted to announce that we are working on Doctors and Daleks – a new line of products that brings Doctor Who adventures to your table using 5th Edition rules! The first release – The Doctors and Daleks Player’s Guide will launch soon.

The wild adventures of everyone’s favourite Time Lord comes to the world’s most popular roleplaying game in Doctors and Daleks. Take your gaming group into the TARDIS and travel anywhere, anywhen.

We’ll also continue to support the new Second Edition of our award winning Doctor Who: The Roleplaying Game, with a host of new products on the way soon!

 

[Professor Murder]

Well, I hope they don't change their mind and cancel it due to all the venom they are getting. That would really suck.

Anything is possible but I highly doubt it. The anti 5e crowd is very vocal and passionate but it is dwarfed by the sheer size of the 5e market. The people who are complaining would never buy the product, so why change it to suit their demands? Despite any internet hyperbole, there is no moral failing in producing a game with a 5e ruleset.

That people put the same energy into fighting a ruleset choice that they do into actual predators and hatemongers in our community just exemplifies how the madness of crowds can reward people bereft of actual conviction.

 

[Jer]

Working with a licensed property is more complicated and restrictive and expensive than just making your own stuff, so no one is going to go through that if they don't believe it will make them money. So money will always be first when it comes to licensed products.

So therefore all licensed games are cynical cash grabs? That doesn't follow.

If you are in the rpg game manufacturing world all of your products have to have making money as a motivator because you are sinking a lot of cash into product. It's only the hobbyists that can spend time making games with no concern about whether anyone wants to buy them or not.

 

[Thunderfoot]

Yeah, speaking as somebody who likes D&D, I hated that period of the hobby.

Who here can think of a game that put out a D20 version of their game and was better than the original version?

I can't.

Paranoia. Of course they had already switched long before the d20 revolution.

 

[Aldarc]

You should see some of the toxicity about this on social media. It’s way overboard. And some of it coming from the professional peers of the C7 designers. It’s incredibly unpleasant and undeserved.

I personally suspect that it's less about the product per se, C7, or its designers, but rather about what feels like growing frustrations and fatigue surrounding the ubiquity of TTRPGs in the market that are being announced to use the 5e engine. Is it fair to C7's Doctor Who game or its designers? Nope, but it is what it is.

 

[Thunderfoot]

If they wanted to make money, as great designers and talented writers there are probably a MILLION other things they could do and make TONS more money.

Sorry but I dint see it.

Edited: cause that wasn’t necessary.

There is an old joke that makes its rounds at cons. What does every games designer say daily?? You want fries with that?

 

[overgeeked]

Paranoia. Of course they had already switched long before the d20 revolution.

Which is so weird because I think the d20 version (XP/Troubleshooters) is the best version.

 

[Dire Bare]

I personally suspect that it's less about the product per se, C7, or its designers, but rather about what feels like growing frustrations and fatigue surrounding the ubiquity of TTRPGs in the market that are being announced to use the 5e engine. Is it fair to C7's Doctor Who game or its designers? Nope, but it is what it is.

To borrow an idea from anthropology, it's the idea of limited good. There is only so much "good" to go around, and if publisher wastes their resources on something I don't like, something I don't think is "good", then that takes away from the amount of "good" available, less for me.

It's not a terribly realistic mindset, and its rather selfish. But I think it, or something like it, lies behind folks lashing out at companies daring to create things not for them.

There has been a relatively recent increase in the number of games designed using the D&D 5E system. And that won't appeal to everyone, and that's okay. But to feel fatigue or upset over that is rather silly, IMO. Purchase and play what you like, don't waste time getting toxic about others choices that don't really impact you in any significant way.

I'm not a huge Dr. Who fan (although I did really dig Torchwood), haven't purchased the existing game and won't likely purchase this version . . . . although I could be convinced if it has some interesting mechanics I can borrow for my 5E game . . . . but I'm EXCITED Cubicle 7 are going this route. I think it worked well with their Lord of the Rings game, it will work well here. Their plans mean MORE gaming for MORE people, so I'm on Team C7.

 

[eyeheartawk]

Paranoia. Of course they had already switched long before the d20 revolution.

Yeah, but that's not a "D20" system game, as in includes the Wizard's OGL, right?

 

[Yaarel]

My favorite Doctor is Matt Smith, the eleventh.

A section in the 5e game for Torchwood too is awesome.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

So therefore all licensed games are cynical cash grabs? That doesn't follow.

If you are in the rpg game manufacturing world all of your products have to have making money as a motivator because you are sinking a lot of cash into product. It's only the hobbyists that can spend time making games with no concern about whether anyone wants to buy them or not.

Why don't we ask @Morrus about that? I am sure he did not pick up the Judge Dredd license just because he loved it and thought it would be fun to do. I am sure he was expecting to make a profit off it as well, or he would have not touched it.